A few short months ago I had new tips put onto my nails, the nail tech patiently removed all my old acrylic and added new tips and new coating and colour. And, unlike almost every other time, And then, instead of waiting until almost every nail had broken or deciding that I fancied a change in nail style. I just carried on...my nails were shaped into a very natural round shape and I just had an infill and again and a third time. My the time I went back last week, I had long grown out any tips. My own nails were incredibly long. Like I had never in my wildest dreams ever imagined my own nails growing so long ever.
But they are not ALL my nail is it? Yes the length itself is mine, my own nail has grown that long, but the reason it has managed to not break off long time ago is for one simple reason. It had help, that help being the acrylic working as a skeleton keeping my nail up, so to speak....it is support.
I honestly wonder why they haven't yet made a similar formulation for hair yet, a support that helps fine, frizzy hair and becomes a hair skeleton that protects it from it's own innate weakness and helps it to grow naturally? I'd love to see how long my hair would get.
Since I started to add braids, locs and crochet styling to my hair, I have fallen in love more and more with my natural hair. I enjoy my styles but once the fake hair is out, I revel in how pretty my hair is, the tight curls and the unique dark mahogany colour (albeit, slowly getting greys). The long braids and locs feel heavy on my head and like the weaves and extensions of old, I have an urge to cut it, it's not because I don't like long hair, I do, I feel it is awfully pretty. But I don't like hair that isn't MINE being long. My hair is fine, it is light no matter what the length, adding weight to your head will always be uncomfortable. Also, there's the risk of traction headaches and or alopecia. I don't want to risk that all for a sexy style.
